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W. V. Her Book and Various Verses

By William Canton ... With Two Illustrations by C. E. Brock

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The race of giants, sunk in heavy sleep
Within the cirque of those cyclopean walls,
Heard as it were far thunder in their dreams;
But answer came there none from cloud or star.
Then cried the aged King;
“A curse consume
Thy blind night fevered with the glare of stars,
Wild voices, and the agony of dreams!
Would it were day!”